Hands On Hands Off: Three Surfaces of Disengagement

Hands On Hands Off is a live audiovisual and interactive look at three such surfaces of disengagement at the scale of the city, the street, the wall - an examination of electronic imaging, the aesthetics of 'surface' and their influence as generators of urban perception. Three hands-on projects which retake a piece of the city and bring us back inside the mediascape, shown during De Wereld van Witte de With festival.

Pollstream; photo: Jan Sprij

9

Sep 2005

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10

Nov 2005

16:00 to
20:00

location:
V2_ and Witte de With, Rotterdam

Our daily environment is an assemblage of media language. We are
seduced to enter the image, to live the message of media, yet our
relationship to the media surface is becoming one of disengagement - of
dismemberment between ourselves and our environment.

HeHe.org (alias Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen) will demonstrate their ongoing research project Pollstream which speculates on the ways in which our perception of pollution is altered. Is pollution something which is artificial, human made, or ...

Els Viaene is a sound and visual performer who 'builds' audio media-surfaces which act to cut the traditional links between audience and performer, focusing completely on sound and presence. Her history in sound started as a radiowoman but evolved ...